Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
A picture is a poem without words. – Horace
To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link. – Paul Cézanne
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. – Joan Miró
Creativity takes courage - Henri Matisse
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent van Gogh